Then Hinn. . .did absolutely nothing. He went right back to his old shtick, confident that the public's collective-ADD would prevent them from being able to follow up on his promises.
And I felt that way with Cramer on the Daily Show. Cramer walked in the studio wearing his rolled up sleeve shirt (which I'll bet dollars to donuts are now sewn in place). He was chastened, promised to fix every flaw that Stewart presented, and then will go right back to ringing bells and pumping-and-dumping stocks on his show while pretending that he's doing it for anyone's benefit but his own.
On an entirely different note, I am amused by the new iPod shuffle and its infinite smallness and Apple's newfound need to eliminate buttons. And I finally figured out what it reminds me of. If you watched the last couple seasons of MST3K, you'll remember the Observers. . .
They were beings that were humanoid but were evolved billions of years beyond us. We were as amoebas to them, as they loved to say. They had, in fact, evolved themselves to the point where they no longer needed bodies and could just exist as disembodied self-sufficient brains.
And then they went even further, constructing host bodies to carry their disembodied brains around.
And so, despite having intellects that dwarf ours (and being more than happy to remind us of that), they didn't realize that their system of carrying their brains around in dishes was way more inconvenient than keeping their brains in their heads.
And that's the new iPod shuffle. It's evolved beyond the need for buttons, but for the sake of interacting with unterbeings such as ourselves, it'll keep around one or two buttons in an inconvenient place.
And Windows Mobile has a new slogan. "Yeah, our browser is kinda sucky, but at least it's got Flash."
Shelly made me a grumpasaurus.
His infinite ennui gives me comfort in uncomfortable times.
Then Maggie stole it.
Also Shelly took my ipod because there's somesuch piece of software that only it'll run. I now have the Sansa again, which doesn't bother me much. I much prefer Rockbox (google for it) to anything else, because it does everything right. It doesn't play games too well, but I got a laptop that plays games really well if I'm on the road and wanna play games.
Should I write another book? I could probably write the "game programming on 25 cents a day travel guide" that I've been threatening, as I have more experience in that than anyone, but computer book sales are flat or declining.
Get it published? Vanity-press it and make beer money off it? Slap it up on the web with a pile of adsense ads? Thoughts?
